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Building better onboarding and PM tools for biotech @ Attaché.
If you care about credentials: Educated in Materials Sciences/Engineering and Biomedical Engineering @ Carnegie Mellon + ETH Zürich. Previously Roche, Mercedes AMG Petronas F1, other engineering gigs where I moved into data science/ML.
Congrats on the launch! Worked on something similar, so rooting for ya. Using Hollywood accent coaches is a great approach, but I'd also look into identifying speech therapists that specialize with helping adults in target regions to 1) get more information for your models and 2) point out which problems can't be corrected in older adults, so you focus on those that can.
The problem with adapting this to other forms of atypical speech is that their recommendation system likely relies on a catalog the phonemes L2 speakers have issues with (the example most people know is the Japanese "L" "R" swap) so it's much easier to create courses with specific focuses and solutions.
If Google's Project Euphonia [0] is actually still ongoing and they release their dataset/methodology of training models with that sparse dataset I can see your idea as approachable; even accented speech is a tough problem to work on considering how many variants exist worldwide (but their approach looks good!).
I'm even talking vs custom trained models with Kaldi (was working on a startup that was trying to create lessons for public speaking so we could grab enough data to tackle accent remediation/help those with aphasic speech disorders) and again just reiterating, the out of the box performance of Nuance's products are just better than anything else.
Obviously Nuance is more than just speech recognition, but still not sure why people are downplaying how good they were at it.
EDIT: or maybe it's just too prohibitively expensive for people outside of medical/legal fields to know about? And don't get me wrong, I love that things like Talon Voice are widely available for hands free coding, I just hope this means NaturallySpeaking will supplant Windows Dictation.
And what do you suggest is better? I've worked with nearly every tool (open source and closed) under the sun in medical, industrial, and personal settings and Dragon NaturallySpeaking/Professional was by far the best in terms of accuracy regardless of prosody, accent, background noise, technical terms used, etc.
Personally I think they should've been acquired a decade ago.
I mean the substack author is far from someone who ejects nuance into any topic, they have a very clear right-wing bias (some of which I'd clearly note as actually extremist) by looking at their other articles. Some if I named or posted here I'd clearly be banned.
Not sure why you think this flimsy evidence holds when the author's actual intent is "nationalism is good actually." Vaccine distribution/contracting is significantly more complicated that this binary analysis.
Because the manufacturer of the medicine explicitly said it can't treat the off-label use? And won't sell it to anyone claiming it can.
I never said zero stakes? There are clear instances where a a 1 or 0 shot transformer can have benefits beyond entertainment--topic modeling and named entity recognition for instance (I'm on the team that believes that human-in-the-loop systems will always outperform solo systems on their own and that GPT-3 alone does not confer any competitive advantage). If you think that chatbots are the only user facing use-case for a transformer, then frankly that's on you falling for the hype surrounding its language generation performance.
OpenAI knows GPT-3 is not sophisticated enough to perform medical diagnosis or analysis (anyone can look at how Watson failed), so it'd never approve such a risky application.
I mean the OpenAI team would never approve this application for production. It's very clearly stated (in both the article and use case guidelines) that medical diagnosis would be a "high stakes domain" and is unsupported. Frankly, I'm not sure why this result is even notable.
Abstracts are important (and clearly key in generating these TLDRs), but when it comes to ranking and recommending other papers (not to mention noting whether a new paper has content that can actually push a field forward) an abstract just isn't enough.
The Koch's political funding goes far beyond just this one PAC fyi. Their funneling of millions into the Federalist Society and its individual causes serving as just one example that has had an outsized negative influence on the health of American democracy.
Not only that, but the assumptions are poor to begin with. Most skincare products containing sodium hyaluronate are either micronized or in a crosspolymer so that it can penetrate the skin, not HA on its own (something I'd expect a chemist/dermatologist to know). Cursory googling it seems the writer/owner was attaching her name to reddit submissions of scientific articles unrelated to her to game SEO and give her credibility that it it's painfully obvious she doesn't have.
If you're in America, covid19 is not winding down. After working for Roche I think statements and projects like this are here solely for lip-service/to quickly attract VC bucks, but the threat is still very real and every major pharma company is dedicating resources and or M&A teams to the vaccine effort.
No, iOS devices can also soft-brick, it's just a general term. Most often people encounter the term in relation to hacking/rooting hardware, like a Nintendo DS/Switch for instance. Hitting up Wikipedia or Trends can help you dig through its usage considering how Google's search algo heavily biases current events wrt relevance.
Yeah the writing and formatting were really poor, they've since changed it to theHustle's article on it, which is at least a marginal improvement.
And he's wrong. Retraining has been effective in several European nations like Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, especially for older adults (there's a reason even DeVos and Trump name drop them). The fundamental difference (from the US programs attempted in the past) primarily lies in the amount of money per worker spent and the level of state control/centralization. Furthermore, companies there seem actively enthusiastic about ensuring they have a skilled population pool in the future regardless of the short term ROI.
Personally I think the 2017 tax cuts should be rolled back for a lot of industries and used as an incentive for companies to develop proper apprenticeship programs and collaborate with universities/community colleges/trade schools to teach the exact skills they're looking for.
You're going to need to provide a source for your claims that 0% graduate. A handful of my classmates from Carnegie Mellon were veterans (some with trauma) and all graduated within the typical timeline. The NVEST report from 2017 on student veterans [0][1] show an approximate 54% graduation rate within 6 years (18% were still enrolled, 28% dropped out) greater than the general averages. While the washout rate for 2 year programs is particularly high, your idea that retraining isn't achievable is flawed.
[0]https://nvest.studentveterans.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03... [1]https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/why-is...
If anyone wants to try out a free GPU using Google Colab/Jupyter (K80, you might run into ram allocation issues if you're not one of the lucky users who get to use the full amount) here's a quick guide to get a Julia kernel up and running: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free...
Glad they've finally gotten to 1.0, been using it on and off since .3 with the same optimism I had when Rails jumped onto the scene. I really hope the community can start to mature beyond the bikeshedding that is typical of early language days, and start cracking more significant issues necessary for wider acceptance. Speed and multiple dispatch are great, but ability to roll standalone binaries (just don't mention it on Discourse/Gitter or risk Karpinski's wrath), streamlining documentation/onboarding, and more native/active package development are pretty big todos to tackle.
I've been working on updating a wide variety of engineering software apis/wrappers and a large informatics library for .7/1.0, but I'd love to hear any suggestions of must-need technical packages that users want from MATLAB, Python, or R.
No it doesn't. The requirements are Android 5.0, and can support something as weak as the Motorola E4 Plus[0]. And as someone who maintains a decently popular app on that platform, you'd be surprised how many former flagships (the Google Pixel in particular) still remain on Android 7.x (my wild guess is so that they can keep the old Google Now launcher) which does not have the selective permissions that come with Oreo.
[0]https://www.androidauthority.com/fortnite-mobile-compatible-...
Most modern phones are not on 8. The Oreo install base is only 12.1%, most phones are still running Nougat (7.0 dominates with 21.2%, then 7.1) or Marshmellow (23.5%). Seeing as PUBG Mobile's lowest supported version is 5.0, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume Fornite could do the same.
A lot of Android devices are about to have a real security flaw introduced (and normalized considering the median age of the Fortnite audience) which Epic is handwaving away.
The President of the United States actively chooses to use @realDonaldTrump as in the same manner as a government official would in any other public forum, as such he must comply with the rules governing them as enshrined in the Constitution, features of that forum notwithstanding. The moment he began using it in a official capacity, was the moment it stopped being personal. Imagine if he was in a physical town hall, the placard in front of him doesn't change the fact that he's a government official.
Sorry to dump on your aside, but the media arm isn't affected. The Finance/Risk news (for financial clients) division is the one being downsized, and they were profitable.
The parent mentions it, but here's the brief from their outlet: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomsonreuters-results-idU...
It is indeed, correct. The annealing example I linked is from his team (here's another one with full citation with Martinis at the end there [0]). And if you want further proof that Martinis and the Google Quantum team are pursing quantum annealing look no further than the Adiabtic Quantum Computing Conference that was held this summer where their team held several talks including "Building Quantum Annealer v2.0" [1].
And I didn't touch on your earlier (erroneous) comment on the scientific community's perception of D-Wave, but I think it needs to be said that in actual professional circles the research they're performing isn't met with as much derision as they seem to garner in these more causally informed settings. It's hyped and a difficult subject to understand, so that's fair, but I suggest really informing yourself if you're going to go out there and make the claims you're making.
[0] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub44292.html [1] https://aqccreg2016.eventfarm.com/events/index/7fff5387-0000... http://1qbit.com/insights-inside-googles-annual-adiabatic-qu... [2] (Another article reviewing QA with Martinis and team) http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02206
The UCSB professor you're referring to is John Martinis [0] and though the physical structure differs (they're using small arrays of "Xmons" instead of typical transmons qubits to minimize decoherence and thus error) they're still working within the realm of adiabatic quantum computing/quantum annealing, the same general avenue D-Wave is pursuing (with a "digital" twist) which is why Google invested in both of them.
[0] http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/publications.shtm... [1] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/quantum-annealing-wi...
Whenever D-Wave comes up on HN I'm always impressed to see how many posters who casually read one Scott Aaronson blog (not even the most recent ones mind you) think they're more qualified than legions of classically trained engineers and physicists from Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, ETH Zurich, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Google, et. al.
D-wave isn't selling a "universal" quantum computer, but the platform they are and have continued to deliver has shown real, tangible progress with respect to quantum tunneling (even though their coverage has been typically questionable, the best layman's explanation of their most recent results happens to be from Ars [0]). No we're not getting a "universal" quantum computer anytime soon and no they're never going to be accessible to average consumers (so remain skeptical of anyone who says otherwise) but those claiming D-Wave is a scam/con are absurd.
[0] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/is-d-waves-quantum-pr...
A selling point which isn't enough in the current climate when it comes to living room hardware. As of June this year the Wii U has only sold (to retail, which doesn't actually mean total sales to consumers) 13.02 million units worldwide. [0] Compare that to the either Playstation 4 or Xbox One sales and the pricing of their new 4K iterations (respectively PS4 Pro and Scorpio) and it's obvious to see both enthusiasts and the typical consumer no longer value Nintendo's games enough to shell out $300 for their small catalog.
Their current strategy consists of developing and selling software to the casual cohort they lost between the Wii and WiiU release, in order to bolster new hardware sales. Buying their stock on the announcement of that software is ill-advised because no one knows what their new hardware looks like and whether or not they can convince that audience to spend cash on it when the alternatives are such better/easier sells.
[0] https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/2016_01.html
I wouldn't go as far to say they're stuck in the 80s, but when it comes to technology and current trends Nintendo is consistently considered the lagging player (the fact that they're still grappling with online gaming and infrastructure is laughable).
The general consumer doesn't understand how miserable a failure their latest console was and that the small catalog of "high rated" games (debatable considering their releases this year) isn't enough to sell that system to an audience beyond diehards and children. Their pivot into mobile is admirable (chasing the cohort they lost that made the original Wii a hit), but in terms of long-term growth anyone looking to invest should hold-off until their next console (NX) shows promise beyond the mediocre niche they currently occupy.
The generic version is still $200, still not an "easy fix" for most.
No offense, but your GTX480 is more than likely the cause of your visual issues. I hear you on mount space (I initially used bookshelves in my room like their preview video, then wall-mounted them which isn't ideal for everyone), but your claim that Vive hasn't shipped a working, polished product is pretty disingenuous.
Beyond that, what VR doesn't need as an ecosystem isn't fanboying (which your post comes off as, have you even tried the CV1 yet with your setup?) it needs its users to condemn actions like the ones taken by Oculus that weaken it as a whole. VR software is well and good for short demos, but the current catalog is small, of poor to mediocre quality, and generally too expensive for that quality. Users are going to remain on the fence (which is actually a positive for Oculus, with the release of Touch later on it'll reach feature parity with Vive's room-scale stuff and make it an easier sell) and smart studios are going to continue to wait before wasting any money on high-end VR development on PC.
Finally, all of this has finally convinced me that if you're interested in developing or investing in VR gaming the details on the PS4K and Playstation's VR roll-out at E3 are going to indicate how VR really fairs in its early years.
For the DK2 maybe, but for CV1 this limitation is probably imposed by firmware (something that would be widely known if not for the NDA). Wouldn't surprised if this happens to be the result of whatever DRM they're employing.
It's an annoyance for users that use SSDs or multiple partitions; I know I can use a symlink (I doubt all Oculus users will though), but the fact that this was overlooked is a little absurd. Fingers crossed for a day one fix, or at least an actual explanation.